Profiling methods
Use following profiling methods to group content items.
Profiling content items
- Taxonomies and categories
A Category refers to the subject matter of the content item. For example, the content item may be of the category New Products or Latest News. We use taxonomies to group categories. Users select from a predefined list of categories when profiling a Content item.
In most cases, only use bottom-level categories to profile content. This will give us more control over what will display in menus.
- Keywords
We also use Keywords to profile content. Unlike categories, which are chosen from a predefined list, we can enter any keywords we like when creating content items.
Additional profiling options
- Profiling users
We can add profile information to users. This can be used as search parameters in menu elements.
- Profiling rendering portlets
We can enter profile information when configuring a rendering portlet. This can be used as search parameters in menu elements.
Profiling versus access controls
Profiling can be used to personalize a website for different users. This is different from using item access controls to limit what items a user can access. In a profile based personalized site, although a user may not be able to access all the pages via personalized menus, they may still be able to access other pages using navigators, or by searching for content. Using access controls limits a user to only view items that they have been granted access to.
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